digital music/video
08/30/2005, 9:40am, EDT
Tuesday, August 30th
iTunes mobile phone to debut at Sept 7 music event
One analyst says that Apple will introduce its much anticipated iTunes music phone and iTunes mobile software at the upcoming Apple special music event in San Francisco on September 7, while The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple has reached an agreement with Cingular Wireless to offer a Motorola cellphone that will play songs from Apple's iTunes Music Store. "Apple Computer and Motorola plan to unveil a long-awaited mobile phone and music player next week that will incorporate Apple's iTunes software, a telecommunications industry analyst who has been briefed on the announcement.... Roger Entner, a telecommunications analyst with Ovum, a market research firm, said he had been told by an industry executive that the new phone, to be made by Motorola, would be marketed by Cingular Wireless. Mr. Entner said it would include iTunes software, which helps power the iPod." The WSJ report said that Cingular is expected to make the phone available in time for the holidays and that the event may also bring a new line of iPods to replace the iPod mini line. [updated]
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This is truly a non-event as cell phones are really meant to do one thing... COMMUNICATE with another human being, not be a PDA, Music Player, Video Device, etc. Just another example of a device that will allow a person to shut themselves away from the rest of the planet. There is too much of this dreck around already. Will I want one? No. That pretty much precludes me from BUYING one ... and from Cingular? One of the WORST companies to deal with if you have a problem. Uh uh... no f'in way!
However if the capacity is similar to the Shuffles, it might be a nice option in a pinch, but the price, service and interface will all play a major role in its success.
Too bad it's not an Apple-designed phone.
however, took my same V600 to europe for 2 weeks, never dropped 1 call in 3 countries! so it's not the phone.
finally company switched to verizon... no one has dropped a call yet, except 1 person who has really bad reception at her house, foothills on the back of a mountain.
bad move apple!
So bad move on Apple's part to partner with them. Maybe Cingular offered Apple huge concessions in order to allow them to dangle a shiny new object in front of their cusomters to distract them their horrible PHONE service. Or maybe they were the only carrier willing to let the phone talk directly to a computer to download songs. Heaven knows their network isn't reliable enough to actually download anything that way!
Besides, this is all conjuncture at this point. Nobody knows for that it'll only be Cingular offering this phone. Or that there will even been a phone. Look out for the iPod noggin, I tell you!